Chapter 43: Power
>>Amber
If I actually stopped and thought about it. It would make sense. This tower belongs to the Master. Why would the first door that appeared after coming down have random mages in it?
It is obvious that the room would be used by people of importance.
I looked back at the five people looking at me. The arch mages are also recognized by their eye masks. It’s an embroidered lace they wear to cover their eyes. Each mage has a rank from one to four. According to their ranks they have their assigned tower.
"My Lady?" Archmage May, the only female archmage with dark gray hair, repeated Hael’s word in the form of a whisper while the others nodded. They were already suspicious of me.
"You should have called for me when you woke up," Hael said as he turned his body towards me, "I would have come to you."
For a moment I felt paralyzed but when he stepped towards me, I stepped back.
"I," I was at a loss. What do I even say? Should I just say, ’Sorry, wrong room,’ and then shut the door? Then I’ll be on my way again.
You know what? That’s actually not a bad idea. Let me do that
"I’m so-" Something sharp hit the bottom of my feet making me wince, "Ssss," I immediately bent down to hold my foot. The heck? I brushed down and saw that a splinter was stuck in my heel, "God," I brushed it off but as the splinter got out, the heel began to bleed
"You should have called me," He looked at my feet, "You ended up hurting yourself." He began to walk towards me. The distance was merely of a few steps to begin with and as I raised my head to look at him, I noticed him coming down to my level